Ontario North, Ontario

Ontario North was an Census Division in Ontario as recorded in the 1871–1911 Canadian census series. It comprised the constituent Census Subdivisions listed below for each year it appears in the published volumes. ON federal electoral subdivision (North Ontario County); no Wikidata entity.

Population trajectory across census years

Aggregate population summed from constituent Census Subdivisions in this Census Division each year. Where the published 1851–1921 census volumes report a CD-level total, the figures should match within rounding; for cities split into wards, the per-CSD sum may diverge from the published CD aggregate.

Constituent Census Subdivisions by year

1871 census

• Brock wd (pop 5,175)
• Mara (pop 2,697)
• Rama (pop 904)
• Reach (pop 6,809)
• Scott wd (pop 2,775)
• Scugog wd (pop 880)
• Thorah wd (pop 1,965)
• Uxbridge wd (pop 4,762)

1881 census

• Brock wd (pop 4,378)
• Cannington, VL wd (pop 922)
• Mara (pop 3,237)
• Port Perry, VL wd (pop 1,800)
• Rama (pop 1,370)
• Reach (pop 4,949)
• Scott wd (pop 2,563)
• Scugog wd (pop 768)
• Thorah wd (pop 2,542)
• Uxbridge wd (pop 4,081)
• Uxbridge, Village (pop 1,824)

1891 census

• Beaverton, VL wd (pop 850)
• Bracebridge, T-V wd (pop 1,419)
• Brock wd (pop 4,071)
• Cannington, VL wd (pop 1,050)
• Draper (pop 1,082)
• Macaulay (pop 760)
• Maclean (pop 545)
• Mara (pop 3,152)
• Morrison (pop 890)
• Oakley (pop 385)
• Rama (pop 1,752)
• Ridout (pop 190)
• Ryde (pop 612)
• Scott wd (pop 2,342)
• Scugog wd (pop 662)
• Thorah wd (pop 1,623)

1901 census

• Beaverton, VL wd (pop 855)
• Bracebridge, T-V wd (pop 2,479)
• Brock wd (pop 3,727)
• Cannington, VL wd (pop 1,058)
• Draper (pop 998)
• Macaulay (pop 736)
• Maclean (pop 523)
• Mara (pop 2,921)
• Morrison (pop 927)
• Oakley (pop 348)
• Rama (pop 1,618)
• Ridout (pop 239)
• Ryde (pop 552)
• Scott wd (pop 2,270)
• Thorah wd (pop 1,438)

1911 census

• Beaverton, VL wd (pop 1,015)
• Brock wd (pop 3,330)
• Cannington, VL wd (pop 948)
• Mara (pop 2,871)
• Rama (pop 1,588)
• Scott wd (pop 2,119)
• Thorah wd (pop 1,366)
• Uxbridge wd (pop 2,471)
• Uxbridge, T-V wd (pop 1,433)

Lineage

Boundary changes connecting this Census Division to others in the 1851–1921 series, derived from spatial polygon overlap across census-year boundary files.

• Split off from Ontario in 1871.
• Merged into Ontario in 1921.

Identifiers

• HGIS Canada CD ID: CD_ON_Ontario_North

Sources

Census Division boundaries derived from the Canadian Peoples / TCP 1851–1921 Census Subdivision boundary files (NAME_CD_<year> attributes, hosted at the HGIS Lab, University of Saskatchewan). Constituent-CSD memberships use the P10_falls_within CIDOC-CRM relationships emitted by the spatial CIDOC builder. Wikidata grounding for Census Divisions performed via the HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph project's MCP-assisted disambiguation pipeline. See the About / Methodology page for the full data pipeline.